In mail.xemacs-beta, you wrote: Bad idea. Although French does not use odiaeresis, French writers may well want it for borrowings from German. And it's completely unintuitive. I think it would be better to go with oei -> oelig i oeu -> oelig u Then find a french wordlist with frequency data, and decide whether oe anything else should be oelig or oe by default ;-) I would say oe, since writing a word like coefficient with oelig is absolutely wrong and hard to read, whereas writing a word like coeliac with oe instead of oelig is not hard to read, although officially incorrect. You might then reverse Aidan's suggestion, and use oee for oelig. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta